[amazingamazing]

what's the best way to stop the bots? cloudflare?

[surfaceofthesun]

I believe that's what this project aims to do: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

[compass_copium]

DDoS the hell out of any IP address running an AI scraper bot

If someone makes a SETI@Home style daemon I'd contribute my home internet to this worthy goal

[gherard5555]

my guess is the gnome anime girl anti bot captcha

[szszrk]

mandatory link: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

It's an interesting project, I wish there would be better ways to do that, but I guess we are on war with crawlers for a while already.

[briandear]

Why should we stop the bots? Wikipedia supposedly wants the world to have this free information, a bit is just another way of supporting that goal.

[richiebful1]

Because there's a better way for bots to get the data via the wikipedia database dump. Sending some large zip archives is a lot cheaper than individually serving every page on Wikipedia.

[jraph]

Not at all costs though, including disrupting access to said free information.

And this free information is not free from rights to respect neither, it's under CC-BY-SA, which requires attribution and sharing under the same conditions, the kind of "subtleties" and "details" with which AI companies have been wiping their big arses.

[coldpie]

The answer to your question is in the article.

[franktankbank]

make pain for the people they serve.